DipECZM (WPH), MVetMed, PgCert (Cons. Med.) Rosa Jolma

Rosa is a wildlife veterinarian (EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Wildlife Population Health) who currently works on a project that investigates the effects of climate change on the success of parasite invasions and their effects on host populations. Her past research includes work on paramyxovirus dynamics in African fruit bats and Mycobacterium bovis diagnostics in European badgers (Meles meles). The system under study consists of native blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) hosts, invasive Pacific oysters (Magallana gigas) and two invasive species of intestinal parasitic copepods (Mytilicola intestinalis and Mytilicola orientalis) in the Wadden Sea. The project uses a combination of controlled laboratory experiments, field data collection and modelling.